The intralaminar thalamus, in particular the centromedian-parafascicular complex, forms a
strategic node between ascending information from the spinal cord and brainstem and …

Abstract The International Association for the Study of Pain defines neuropathic pain as
“pain arising as a direct consequence of a lesion or disease affecting the somatosensory …

OBJECTIVE Medial thalamotomies were introduced in the late 1940s. Pain relief was shown
to be achieved for all body locations. With some exceptions, these early relatively small …

OBJECTIVE Medial thalamotomy has been shown to benefit patients with neuropathic pain,
but widespread adoption of this procedure has been limited by reporting of clinical outcomes …

METHODS: In this prospective, nonrandomized, single-arm, investigator-initiated phase I
trial, patients with NP for more than 6 months related to phantom limb pain, spinal cord …

Medial thalamotomy using stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is a potential treatment for
intractable pain. However, the ideal treatment parameters and expected outcomes from this …

Chronic pain (CP) represents a socio-economic burden for affected patients along with
therapeutic challenges for currently available therapies. When conventional therapies fail …

Chronic neuropathic pain refractory to medical management can be debilitating and can
seriously affect one's quality of life. The interest of ablative surgery for the treatment or …

Although advances in imaging and lesioning technology have recently broadened the use of
high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in neurosurgery, 1, 2 the conceptualization of …

BACKGROUND The authors reported the case of a 66-year-old male patient with a 14-year
history of right-sided severe episodic and therapy-resistant cluster headache (CH) who …